Eureka Entertainment has announced they'll be releasing a 4K restoration of Fruit Chan’s cult-movie of eternal and tragic beauty, Made in Hong Kong, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK, as part of The Masters of Cinema Series on September 21st 2020.
Released to critical acclaim in 1997, the year of the Hong Kong handover, Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong was praised as an anarchic masterpiece, a powerful distillation of urban alienation and youthful despair.
"Moon (Sam Lee) is a small-time triad, stuck in an endless cycle of pointless violence with no hope of escape. After he and his friends witness the suicide of a young girl, they embark on a journey to deliver two letters she had on her when she died."
Produced on a shoestring budget, with non-professional actors and using discarded film reels for stock, the film was rescued from obscurity and fully restored in 4K in time for its 20th anniversary in 2017, thanks to the Far East Film Festival, in collaboration with Andy Lau’s Hong Kong production company, Focus Film.
Special Features:
Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase [2000 Units]
1080p presentation on Blu-ray from a 4K digital restoration
Uncompressed LPCM 2.0 audio
Optional English subtitles
New interview with director Fruit Chan
New interview with producer Doris Yang
New interview with producer Daniel Yu
New interview with Marco Muller, former director of the Locarno Film Festival
A collector’s booklet featuring new writing by film historian Alexandra Heller-Nicholas & Tony Rayns; Fruit Chan’s director’s statement from the film’s original 1997 press release; and an interview with director Fruit Chan from 2017, after the film’s restoration
Check out the trailer below and head on over to Eureka Entertainment's site to pre-order.
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